Raul Castro Quotes
The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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The fact is that we are, compared to most other places, a very liberal country.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
